DoD acknowledges more abuse incidents

NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) -- New documents released by the Pentagon this week reveal more cases of abuse against detainees, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday.

The documented incidents include mock executions, the ACLU said.

"The Army's own investigations show systemic abuse and humiliation of Muslim men by U.S. forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay," ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said. "If we are to truly repair America's standing, the Bush Administration must first hold accountable high-ranking officials who allow the continuing abuse and torture of detainees."

Almost 2,000 pages of Army documents were released Tuesday in response to a federal court order stemming from a Freedom of Information Act filing by the ACLU and other groups.

One investigation into abuses at Rifles Base in Ramadi, Iraq, details an incident in July 2003 in which an Army captain took an Iraqi welder into the desert, told him to dig his own grave, verbally threatened to kill him and had other soldiers stage a shooting of the man.